This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...
⎯ Technology scaling is in the era where the chip performance is constrained by its power dissipation. Although the power limits vary with the application domain, they dictate th...
Distributed systems increasingly span organizational boundaries and, with this, system and service management domains. Web services are the primary means of exposing services to c...
Bruno Wassermann, Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal ...
Very deep submicron and nanometer technologies have increased notably integrated circuit (IC) sensitiveness to radiation. Soft errors are currently appearing into ICs working at e...
Formal specifications have been a focus of software engineering research for many years and have been applied in a wide variety of settings. Their industrial use is still limited ...